The Abigail Breslin Gift

Due to the Best Supporting Actress Oscar attention Abigail Breslin has been receiving, we've decided to change the name of our film to The Abigail Breslin Gift.

The old working title, The Ultimate Gift, just didn't have that "Abby Punch".

We also considered:

-The Ultimate Abigail
-Abigail Breslin Dances
-Little Miss Sunshine 2: The Ultimate Gift

It will be in theaters March 9th with the new and improved Abigail Cut. Not only did we extend every single scene in which she appears and add a dance scene at the end, but we actually let her sit down in Final Cut Pro and re-edit the film herself. It took me weeks to understand FCP, but Abby sits down with the manual and a cup of coffee and within 2 hours she's blazing through the film slipping this and splicing that.

The idea to bring everyone back and reshoot the ending came pretty easy. Obviously it works. People like to watch that kid dance. The tricky part was the rewrite. Her character dies at the end of our film, so the first thing we needed to do was cut that shit out. She can't dance if she's dead. I know what you're thinking.

Weekend at Bernie's.

Way ahead of you. We thought of that, but we weren't convinced it would work. We flew Abigail back to Charlotte the next day to shoot some tests. Two huge issues came up:

1) James Garner and Brian Dennehy refused to participate.

2) It's not funny when dead children dance.

Moral was pretty low at this point. We needed an idea fast. Soon Abigail was going to be unavailable for the reshoot considering every director wants to work with her now. We knew we needed her in a dance scene and we knew we needed her alive in that dance scene.

Eventually the idea came to us and things flowed pretty smoothly after that. Within 2 weeks we had assembled the primary actors for one day of reshoots. Everyone ended up really happy. Abby gave final approval on the edit and we sent the film up to Canada for processing with DELUXE.

You may be curious to know more about the new ending. I don't want to give it away, you'll have to buy a ticket and see for yourself.

I will say this...you've never seen "Ice, Ice Baby" like this before!